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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver)
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 21:39:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070725213925.2f25906c@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0707252130090.6234@poirot.grange>

> driver to using platform-device. I got a reply, that it's not worth it now 
> that IDE is slowly becoming obsolete, and the pata_platform serves the 
> perpose perfectly well. I found this argument reasonable, I had the same 
> doubt, just wanted to double-check. So, why do we now need a new legacy 
> (a/drivers/ide/legacy/ide_platform.c) driver when a "modern" driver 
> exists?


We don't *need* it but some people still want to use old IDE and the
author was willing to make it neatly compatible so that anything that
works with the pata_platform should be able to use the ide_platform
driver and vice versa. For the shorter term that can only be a good thing
- arch code doesn't need to care about which driver is used, end users
can pick and it doesn't end up adding new ties between code and old IDE.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25 16:53 Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 16:53 ` [PATCH 2/2] [POWERPC] MPC8349E-mITX: use platform IDE driver for CF interface Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 17:06   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 17:54     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:01       ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 18:19         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:39           ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 19:30             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 16:24               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:47             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-25 18:29         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 18:46           ` Scott Wood
2007-07-26 17:21             ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-26 17:45               ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:36       ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-31 23:56         ` Alan Cox
2007-08-06 17:19           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-01 13:11         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 17:12     ` Vitaly Bordug
2007-07-25 17:29   ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 17:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) Alan Cox
2007-07-26 19:28   ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-25 17:59 ` Kumar Gala
2007-07-25 19:00 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:05   ` Scott Wood
2007-07-25 19:16     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:17       ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver Scott Wood
2007-07-25 19:35         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-31 22:31           ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-08-01 12:39             ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-08-06 17:16               ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-07-25 19:37 ` [PATCH 1/2] [IDE] Platform IDE driver (was: MMIO IDE driver) Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 19:48   ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 19:54     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 20:01       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-25 20:09         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-25 20:39   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-07-26 19:41     ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-26 19:52       ` Sergei Shtylyov
2007-07-26 20:13         ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2007-07-26 20:11       ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2007-07-26 19:28 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

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